As plastic waste infiltrates every corner of the planet, scientists have discovered that some animals are evolving to survive — and even thrive — in plastic-polluted environments. Certain ...

Top 5 Plastic Waste Items Found on Beaches—The Worst Is Not What You Think. ... or even be confused by marine animals for jellyfish. 3. Beverage Bottles—21,810,732 items.

Animals Eat Ocean Plastic Because it Smells Like Food. A new study sheds light on why so many seabirds, fish, whales, and other critters are gobbling up so much marine plastic debris.

Marine animals that usually live only in coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean have been found living and reproducing on plastic debris on the high seas – in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

The finding could be particularly useful in combating plastic pollution in Africa, the researchers noted. The continent is the second-most plastic-polluted continent in the world, despite ...

Microplastics are also consumed by people through food and in the air. It’s estimated that globally, people consume the equivalent of a credit card of plastic every week, 1 and it’s expected that ...

Ingesting plastic can harm wildlife without causing death via starvation or intestinal blockage. But subtler, sublethal effects, like those described above for DDT, could be much farther-reaching.